Runners Crossed Waist-Deep Water at the Racefaster Half Marathon
A flash flood warning naming Paramus and Fair Lawn was issued at 8:53 a.m. Sunday and ran until 11:30 a.m. The race started at 10 a.m., and two more warnings went out while the field was still on the course.
Race Coverage
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden Wins the Ultimate Championship 200m With One of the Fastest Times in History
The 21.47 she ran into a headwind in Budapest on Sunday is the fourth-fastest 200m ever run, and it came a day after she won the 100m.
Track and Field
Josh Kerr Wins the Ultimate Championship 1,500m Title in Budapest
The 28-year-old kicked home in 3:29.35 on Sunday night, three hundredths faster than the run that made him world champion in the same stadium three years ago.
Track and Field
Recap: World Athletics Ultimate Championships Day 3
Both leave Budapest with $300,000. Rumesh Pathirage threw 91.09m in the javelin, Josh Kerr won the 1,500m, and the United States finished with 10 of the 28 titles.
Track and Field
Jemma Reekie Breaks the Fifth Avenue Mile Event Record
The Scot ran 4:13.8 on a wet Fifth Avenue on Sunday to win her third title in New York, while Marco Langon, two months into his professional career, took the men’s race in 3:45.0.
Race Coverage
Registration for the 131st Boston Marathon Opens Today
The application window closes at 5 p.m. ET on Friday. Downhill qualifying times carry a penalty for the first time, and about 1,000 entries will go to a random draw.
Jessy Carveth
Zouhair Talbi and Brigid Kosgei Win the 2026 Great North Run
Talbi beat the defending champion Alex Mutiso by 14 seconds in Newcastle on Sunday, and Kosgei won the women’s race by more than two minutes, four weeks out from the Chicago Marathon.
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Andy Burnham Becomes the First Serving Prime Minister to Run the Great North Run
Burnham covered the 13.1 miles from Newcastle to South Shields in 1:57:34 on Sunday, one of 63,000 in the biggest field the race has ever taken.
Race Coverage
Russian Athletics Makes Sebastian Coe the Target of Its Court Case
Executive director Boris Yaryshevsky told the Russian news agency TASS that neither of the federation’s two claims at the Court of Arbitration for Sport has a hearing date yet, and that the World Athletics president is acting on a private grievance.
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